Gary Beck – Seattle Legend

Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2011 by Roger

GARY BECK Q & A: SEATTLE RACING ICON SHARES HIS MEMORIES – CompetitionPlus.com – August 11, 2011

“Gary Beck, honored as the NHRA Legend in his native Seattle this past week at the O’Reilly Northwest Nationals, spoke with Competition Plus about building the Space Needle and his own drag-racing career. Find out why he drove his Beck & Peets Export A Top Fuel Dragster around a road course and a circle track, how everybody thought he’s a Canadian citizen, who was his classmate all the way through school, and who was sniffing oil and how that affected him…”

Beck at Seattle courtesy of CompetitionPlus.com

 

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Driver of our '57 Chev from 1972-2019, Vietnam veteran (A Troop, 3/17th Air Cavalry Scout helicopter Line Chief and later Cobra Periodic Inspection team leader), retired ASE rated automotive mechanic. Roger became involved in drag racing during his high school days and after his stint in the Army ran E & F/MP [Modified Production] here in Division 6 before switching to bracket racing when the '57 became obsolete for class racing. He often raced at Puyallup, Kent-Pacific Raceways, Bremerton, Portland & the original Mission, B.C. track.
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